Suddenly the text on my screen is blurry.

My computer was fine earlier today. I went out (left it on and it went into sleep mode). When I returned, the text on the screen was all blurry. Not only that, but it changed the size of the screen so that nothing that's on it fits as it is supposed to.
Oddly, when I created a second account, there was nothing wrong with the screen in that account.
I've loaded all the current updates.
My bad, though - my last back up was in December (thought I had Time Machine on but it seems I turned it off some time after the end of December, don't recall why or when exactly).
This appears to be a software issue.
Is there a fix?

Didn't work.
And how would the resolution of the screen change without someone fiddling with it?
No, this isn't a screen resolution problem. It looks like the system has lost connection to the font it is supposed to display. There are no recognizable fonts in any of the items I open. It looks like a kind of generic font with odd colour shadows behind letters.
When I created a new account, the display was perfect.
How does something like this happen spontaneously? I was absent from my computer - and no one else has access to it - for a couple of hours and whatever happened, happened in that time I was absent.
I need to get this fixed right away as I have a graphic design project coming in shortly and I really need to see the font I will be working in.

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